You should not bootstrap with mixed cluster. First you should upgrade and then bootstrap a new node. If you are not able to upgrade due to disk space constraints while running upgradesstable, then
1. Reduce the number of threads for upgradesstable (--jobs parameter). By default it is 2. You can do it one. 2. Run upgradesstable with keyspace/table On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:51 PM Surbhi Gupta <surbhi.gupt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are facing some issue in bootstrapping new node in 3.11.0 and > bootstrapping is failing. > We have two tasks here : > 1. Expand the cluster (Due to disk concern and dropped mutation) > 2. Upgrade the cluster from 3.11.0 to 3.11.5 because of various bugs we > are hitting in 3.11.0 . > > So my question here is : > 1. Can we add new node with 3.11.5 rpm on a 3.11.0 cluster ? > 2. Because there is a sstable format change from mc to md , is there any > issue in bootstrapping a node with 3.11.5 version ? > > We are not able to upgrade the cluster first and add nodes because of the > disk concerns . upgradesstable will need space because of sstable format > change. > > Please advise. > > Thanks > Surbhi > >